Reed for looms



Patented Apr. I8, |899.

No. 623,l96.

B. WD.

REED FR LMS.

(Application med June 1s, 189m (No Model.)

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'BYRON lVOOD, OF DNIELSON, CONNECTICUT.

REED FOR LOOMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,196, dated April 18, 1899.

Application tiled .Tune 18, 1898. Serial No. 683,836. (No model To @ZZ whom it muy concern:

Beit known that l, BYRON VOOD, residing at Danielson, in the county of W'indham and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Reed for Looms, ot' which the following is a specification.

VThis invention relates to improvements in reeds for looms; and the object thereof is to provide a stronger and more durable reed than those now in general use by providing means for securely holding the end bars of the reed in position and preventing displacement thereof.

lVith the above object in View the invention consists in providing the end bars of the reed at their respective ends with reverselyinclined notches and soldering a wire at its respective ends to the vreed and passing the same through the slots and beneath the band of the reed.

The invention consists inthe details of construction, which will be fully described hereinafter, particularly referred to in the claim, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the reed constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of one end of the reed. Fig. 8 is a similar view of the reverse side of the reed. Fig. 4 is a detail View showing one of the end bars in side elevation, with the wire in dotted lines. Fig. 5 is a transverse section.

Referring to-the accompanying drawings,

A designates the end bars of the reed, which are provided at their respective ends with the inclined slots B, the slots ot the opposite bars being reversely inclined.

C C are wires or cords, one wire or cord being placed at each longitudinal edge of the reed with one of its ends soldered thereto, as illustrated by Fig. 2. The Wire or cord is then passed through the inclined slot of the bar and then along the reed beneath the band D thereof to the opposite bar, where it is passed through the inclined slot thereof, with its end soldered or otherwise united to the opposite side of the reed at that end. The side barE ot the reed is formed to receive said wire, as illustrated in Fig. 5..

A reed constructed as above set forth is stronger and more durable than the reed now in general use, inasmuch as the longitudinally-extendingwires pre-vent the side bars from becoming displaced. v

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is l In a reed for looms, the combination with the end bars formed at their respective ends with the reversely-inclined slots B, of a wire passing through said slots and connecting the end bars, and'soldered at its respective ends substantially as described.

BYRON VOOD.

Witnesses:

DANIEL T. LARKIN, 4HENRY H. STARKWEATHER. 

